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South Korea July inflation accelerates; staying at nine-year peak
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's consumer prices rose 2.6% in July from a year earlier, government data showed on Tuesday, accelerating from a 2.4% increase in June and beating a 2.4% increase tipped i...
Aug 02, 2021
McDonald’s makes masks mandatory for all customers, staff
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Monday confirmed that all its customers and staff will need to start wearing masks again inside its U.S. restaurants in areas with high or substantial transmission, rega...
Aug 02, 2021
Dutch criminal authorities ask Morgan Stanley for documents related to tax probe
(Reuters) - Dutch criminal authorities have asked for documents concerning whether a Dutch unit of Morgan Stanley accurately reported its taxes and properly maintained its books and records from 2007 ...
Aug 02, 2021
Instagram says some users having issues with platform
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Instagram said on Monday some users were facing glitches with its platform and the social media company was working on a fix. Reports by users showed nearly 6,000 issues on ...
Aug 02, 2021
U.S. CDC extends COVID-19 policy allowing border expulsions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday extended a Trump-era policy allowing for the expulsion of migrants across U.S. borders, citing COVID-19 risks. CDC...
Aug 02, 2021
Exclusive-Sanofi offers to buy U.S. mRNA partner Translate Bio -sources
By Matthias Blamont PARIS (Reuters) -Sanofi has offered to buy U.S. biotech company Translate Bio, two sources familiar with the situation said on Monday, as the French drugmaker bets on next-generati...
Aug 02, 2021
Meet a pint-size U.S. piano prodigy
(Reuters) - Brigitte Xie reads music, can play Beethoven's Sonatina in F Major and has won a spot to perform at Carnegie Hall. She is 4 years old. Brigitte's feet dangle above the ground when the peti...
Aug 02, 2021
Factbox: What’s in the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate pushed ahead on Monday with a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill to update America's roads, bridges and broadband networks, clearing the way for ...
Aug 02, 2021
Trump to object to release of tax returns – lawyer
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump will challenge a recent U.S. Justice Department order that his tax returns should be turned over to a House of Representatives committee, on...
Aug 02, 2021
In Bolivia, ritual fires honor earth goddess Pachamama
(Reuters) - High atop the Andes Mountains in Bolivia, indigenous people gathered at dawn for a ritual ceremony in honor of Pachamama, the goddess of Earth and fertility, with fires and offerings. On t...
Aug 02, 2021
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